Microbiology Consultant: Sponsorship Available

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our team in Harrogate as a Consultant in the Microbiology Department.

The successful candidate should hold CCT or CESR, or be within six months of award of CCT by date of interview, and have FRCPath or equivalent. This replacement post attracts 7 PAs. Any applicant who is unable, for personal reasons, to work the advertised number of programmed activities is encouraged to apply for the post. Please note that the successful candidate will be expected to participate in the out-of-hours and weekend on-call rota on a 1/4 basis providing cover to the acute Trust and GP colleagues. The weekends are covered from home.

Main duties of the job

You will be working with three Consultant Microbiologist colleagues, between them providing approximately 2.5 WTE. We are a very friendly, clinically-orientated department, and like to be seen out on the wards.

The Department of Microbiology is based at Harrogate Hospital, a small but vibrant DGH providing all the usual DGH services. In addition, the Trust has a very large community reach, covering the whole of North Yorkshire and beyond. We pride ourselves on close working with local GP colleagues, and the out of hours GP service is provided by the Acute Trust. The department has its own UKAS accredited laboratory, which receives approximately 130,000 specimens per annum, of which 25,000 are in serology. Harrogate District Hospital Laboratory is a partner of Integrated Pathology Solutions (IPS). IPS is an innovative joint-venture pathology service between Harrogate & District NHS Foundation Trust, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We have excellent laboratory and clinical virology cover from Leeds

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Full and specialist registration (and a licence to practise) with the General Medical Council (GMC) (or eligible for registration within six months of interview)
  • Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT), or equivalent

Desirable

  • Postgraduate thesis
  • Completed fellowship programme
  • Four years supervised training in an appropriate training programme

Clinical Experience

Essential

  • Experience of all aspects of Medical Microbiology (including antimicrobial stewardship) and Infection prevention and control.

Desirable

  • Interest in multi-disciplinary audit

Teaching

Essential

  • Experience of undergraduate and post graduate teaching within Microbiology and Infection Prevention and Control Departments

Desirable

  • Teaching qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 6 September 2026

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